Machine for printing clothing-tickets.



A. & E. ANTOINE. MACHINE FOR PRINTING CLOTHING TICKETS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 26, 1913.

Patented Aug. 4, 1914.

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A. & E. ANTOINE.

MACHINE FOR PRINTING CLOTHING TICKETS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 20, 1913.

1,106, 1 78. Patented g- 4, 1914.

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WITNESSES ATTORNEYS THE NORRIS PETERS LU.. PHUILLLITHLL. WAS'HNGTUNA D. c.

A. & E. ANTOINE. MACHINE FOR PRINTING CLOTHING TICKETS. APPLICATION FILED SEPT.26. 1913.

1,106,1 '78. Patented Aug. 4, 1914 3 SHEETS-SHEET 3.

WITNESSES l/Wf/WORS 1110mm .An t'0( ne THE NORRIS PETER c0. PHOTOLHHO WASHINGYDN, D c.

ALOISE ANTOINE AND ERNEST ANTOINE, OF PASSAIC, NEW JERSEY.

MACHINE FOR PRINTING CLOTHING-TICKETS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 26, 1913.

Patented Au". 4, 1914.

Serial No. 791,968.

To all w 7mm, it may concern Be it known that we, ALoIsn ANTOINE and ERNEST ANTOINE, both citizens of the United States, and residents of Passaic, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Machine for Printing Clothing-Tickets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The present invent-ion relates more particularly to improvements in the construction and arrangement of type-holders and inking devices therefor, from which the two sets of type with which these machines are provided, are supplied; and more particularly to the construction of certain features of the machine disclosed in the Patent No. 7 84,875, which was granted to us under date of arch 7, 1905, to which patent cross reference is here made.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view are: to provide means whereby the inking rolls may be adjusted to vary the pressure thereof on the type; to permit the inking rollers and type drums to assume relatively compensating positions; to provide printing rolls and inking rolls therefor, arranged so that they may be multiplied and conveniently disposed on the machine; to provide printing disks and a mounting therefor to secure registration of the printing faces of said disks, and to multiply the number of printing faces; and to provide a transmission mechanism for the printing disks and feed rolls therefor, arranged to prevent repetition of impressions on said drum.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a face View of a machine constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention; Fig. 2 is a side view of the same; Fig. 3 is a detail view, on an enlarged scale, showing, the means for mounting the printing and inkfeeding rolls, and showing in conjunction therewith fragments of the master printing wheel of the machine and of the frame thereof; Fig. 4 is a section taken on the line 4-4 in Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a detail View on an enlarged scale, in section, the section being taken as on the line 55 in Fig. 1; Fig. 6 is a detail view on an enlarged scale, in section, the section being taken as on the line 66 in Fig. 1; Fig. 7 is an edge View of the printing disks; Fig. 8 is a detail view on an enlarged scale, taken as on the line 8-8 in Fig. 1.

The machine to which the present invention applies is provided with a printing wheel 15. The wheel 15 is provided with a series of printing type 16, which are held in sockets by screws 17. The number of sockets and type characters therefor may vary by increasing or diminishing the size of the wheel 15 to preserve the distance between said printing characters.

As disclosed in the patent above referred to, the machine is primarily provided to imprint numbers or characters upon clothingtickets or tags, such as are usually applied to the garments by being sewed or otherwise fastened thereon. Upon these tickets are imprinted two characters or kinds of numbers, commonly designated the lot numbers and the shade numbers. The distinction between the classes designated by these names is set forth in the patent above referred to. It is to print the shade numbers that we provide the type 16. The screws 17 are engraved to denote the serial order of the type 16, and to indicate the number held by each screw. This is particularly useful in placing initially the order or succession of the type 16 and the impressions executed thereby.

The printing wheel 15 has bolted or otherwise secured thereto a ring 18, said ring being provided with gear teeth. The wheel 15 is fixedly mounted on a spindle 19, which extends through a bearing block 20, and is provided at the opposite end with a collar 21. Through the collar 21 a set screw 22 extends to engage the spindle 19 to hold the wheel 15 in operative position.

The block 20 is provided with a flange 23 and a washer nut 24, each of which overhangs the sides of a slot or runway 25 formed in the upper end of a standard 26. The block 20 is supported between screws 27, by the manipulation of which the vertical adjustment of the wheel 15 and parts connected therewith may be varied to increase or diminish the pressure of the printing type on the ticket-strip 28. The strip 28 is supported upon and moved by the platen wheel, under the wheel 15 and the type carried thereby. The wheel 29 is provided with two series of pins 30. Said pins are disposed in paired arrangement, and register with the The frame or standard 26 is provided with a guide feed table 34. Connecting the.

sides of the table 34 is a rod 35, under which the strip 28 is placed.

which, as shown best in Fig. 5 of the drawings, is connected by means of a bracket 37:

of the standard 26. The finger-guard 36 conforms to the periphery of the platen wheel 29, and operates to prevent the lift of the: strip from the surface thereof while being uppermost of the piled disks when the spool 46 is removed from the shaft 49.

imprinted upon by the type 16.

Intermediate the receiving end of the. guard 36 and the delivery end of the table 34, a presser-foot 33 bears upon the strip 28 and the wheel 29. The foot 38 is formed at the end of a lever 39, which is fulcrurned' in a standard 40, to be swung about a pivot The spring 41 is anchored to the standard 26 in such manner as to lift the end of the lever having apad 42.

When introducing the strip 28 into the] machine, the operator presses upon the pad; 42, to lift the foot 38, when the end of the therein by a spring 41.

strip 28.is introduced thereunder. Each of the screws 17 has imprinted upon the head These numbers are seri-, To indicate the number corresponding with the foot 38, we provide a lVhenthe end of the pointer 43 is in register with a screw 17, the number thereof a number. ally arranged.

pointer 43.

imprinted on the head of said screw will be printed upon the ticket of the strip 28 which rests under the foot 38 at the time when the pointer 43 indicates said screw. This arrangement enables an operator to begin the printing of the tickets with refer ence to the numbers. The pointer is used principally as a finder for the screw 1? bearing the number, 1, this being the first number of the series of the sixty screws with which the machine is usually provided.

On leaving the guard 36, the strip 28' passes under a drum composed of a number of disks 44. The disks 44 are each provided with a number of printing heads 45. The heads 45 are arranged substantially as shown in the drawings, separated a distance equal to the length of each of the disks of the strip 28. Thereby, as the disk rotates, the movement ofsaid heads is synchronized with the movement of the strip 28]andthe platen wheel 29. (As the strip passes'under the drum formed by said disk, the number formed by the assembled disks is imprinted The strip 28 is like wise disposed beneath a finger-guard 36,

on each of the tickets forming the strip, the imprint being duplicated as to position on each of said disks. It will be understood that each disk carries on each of the heads thereof the same number. Therefore, each of the disks may be numerically designated, as, for instance, one could be known as the 8 disk, another as the 7 disk, and another as the 5 disk.

To assemble a number, such as 1234567, the disk bearing the printing character 1 on its heads would be first placed on a spool 46 to rest against the flange 47 thereof, as best seen in Fig. 4 of the drawings. The succeeding disks are then piled on said spool. Each disk is provided with a nick to receive a key 48, to maintain the alinement of said disks and printing heads thereof. It will be seen that the disk representing the last digit of the number, or, in the present illustration, the disk carrying the digit 7, is

This arrangement makes it convenient to increase by one or more units the number indicated, as, for instance, if the job lot next succeeding that illustrated bears the number 1234568, the change is effected by removing the disk 7 and replacing it by the disk 8. This change may be made without removing the remaining disks 44.

The shaft 49 is held non-rotatively in the gear pinion 50 by a pin 51, which pin 6X tends through a hub with which said pinion is provided. The hub is provided with a flange 52 the outer edge of which is trued to form a rest for the disks 44. Said flange is provided with a slot 53, into which the end of the key 48 projects when the spool 49 is provided with a collar 60. The collar 60 is held by a set screw 61 in operative position. The opposite end of the shaft 49 has a reduced, screw-threaded portion 62, on which is mounted a lock nut 63.150 hold the spool 46 firmly against the flange 52 to clamp the disks 44 therebetween.

The teeth ofthe pinion 50 are meshed with the teeth of the ring 32. The block 54 is adiustable to vary the mesh of the teeth of said pinion and ring, by means ofa screw 64; see Fig. 4 of the drawings. The threads of the screw 64 register with the threads formed in a bracket 56. The end of the screw 64 is reduced to form a channel 66 to register with a slotted plate 67, with which said block is provided. It will be seen that by manipulating the screw 64, the block 54 and pinion 50 carried thereby may be moved toward or away from the ring 32, and that the pressure of the printing heads 45 upon the strip 28 and wheel 29 may be varied.

To supply ink to the heads 415, a drum 68 is furnished with a soft absorbent pad 69. The drum 68 is fixedly mounted on a shaft 70, as is also a gear pinion 71. The pinion 71 is in mesh with the pinion 50. The number of the teeth provided on the pinion 71 varies from that on the pinion 50. By this means is avoided a recurrence of pressure of the heads 45 upon the same spot on the pad 69. The shaft has a bearing in a block 7 2, the flange 7 3 whereof overhangs one edge of the slot in correspondence with the washer, which overhangs the edge of the opposite side of said slot. A lock nut 75 holds said washer in position when the block 72 is adjusted. justcd arrangement by a set screw 76.

It will be understood that while we have shown in the drawings only one bracket 56 wheel 29. In each mechanism mounted on.

the brackets thus provided, care would be taken to register the printing heads on the disks 4&1, to avoid overprinting on the tickets forming the strip 28. As a rule, one

' drum formed by said disks 44: is sufiicient,

it being desired to print or record on the tickets composing the strip 28 only a lot number. It may, however, prove desirable to print other numbers having a different intent or purpose, and when such alteration is deemed wise or necessary, we wish it to be understood that we are at liberty to duplicate the arrangement of the compiled printing disks 4:4; and the inking pad therefor. The strip 28 is separated from the periphery of the platen wheel 29, and deflected therefrom by an inclined table 77 The table 7 7 is provided with a foot 78, by which it is mounted on the standard 26.

It is found desirable to vary the color of ink used on the type 16 from that used on the disks 4A. For this purpose, it becomes necessary to employ a second inking drum 79, equipped with an inking pad 80. The drum 7 9 is held on a reduced end of a stud shaft 81 by a milled nut 82 and a washer 83 therefor. The stud shaft 81 is mounted on an arm 84c. The arm 8 1 is pivotally mounted on a pin 85 set out from the bracket 56; see Fig. 1 of the drawings. The lower end of the arm 84 is held yieldingly in service position by a spring 86. The spring 86 is wrapped about a pin 87 mounted in and set out from the bracket 56. The pin 87 is provided with a screw-threaded end to re- A collar is held in adceive a wing nut 88, by manipulating which, the effective operation of the spring 86 is varied. A set screw 89 is employed to hold the arm 8+1 in operating position when such position is attained. The drum 7%) and pad 80 thereof are so adjusted as to the type 16 that the type press backward said drum and pad, the spring 80 yielding to permit the movement of the drum and pad. In this way is avoided pitting or grooving the pad 80 by the successive pressures of the type thereon. It will now be seen that the pad 80 and the drum 79 therefor, the pad 69 and the drum (S8 therefor, being separated and each bearing upon a distinct series of printing members, said pads may be each provided with an ink distinct from that furnished to the other, and in this manner the strips 28 may be printed with a double set of numbers, each set having a distinct and characteristic color.

It will be understood that in the event of duplicating the disks, the drums formed by the complied disks 44:, printing drum (58 and the brackets 56 supporting the same, it will not be necessary to duplicate the drum 79 and parts connected therewith, this drum operating for the single purpose of supplying ink to the type 16. l 1

Having a machine constructed and arranged as described and as shown in the accompanying drawings, and having adjusted the wheels 15 and 29 and the disks 4st, to impart the desired printing pressure on the strip 28, and having adjusted the ink-supplied drums (38 and 7 9 to deliver ink to the heads 15 and type 16, the operator places the strip 28 in position to be printed, the first ticket of said strip being placed below the foot 38. By depressing the pad 42, the Wheel 15 having been previously positioned. so that the pointer 43 registers with the screw 17 carrying the numeral 1, the operator grasps the crank handle 33 and turns the wheel 29. The wheels 29 and 15 being inter-geared by rings 18 and 32, said wheels rotate in harmony. The pins 30 preserve the position of the tickets of the strip 28, so that the type 16 and the heads 45 strike the tickets of the strip 28 constantly in the same relative positions. iVhen the strip has been completely run through the printing machine, it will be found that the tickets have each two numbers, one of said numbers being uniform for all of the tickets. This is the number which is imprinted on the tickets by the heads 45 in correspondence to what has been above denominated as the lot number. The other number with which each of the tickets is provided will be found to have a serial rela tion; that is, each ticket will be numbered in following order to the ticket preceding it. These numbers correspond with what has been denominated above as the shade number. The use of these tickets with reference to the lot number and the shade number is fully set forth in the patent above referred to.

Claims:

1. In a machine characterized, a rotary printing member comprising a rotary shaft; athimble for said shaft; a plurality of printing disks for mounting on said thimble, said disks having each a plurality of printing characters projected from the periphery thereof; means for alining said disks and the printing characters thereon; means for clamping said disks on said shaft; means for locking said thimble on said shaft; a movable bearing block for said rotary shaft; means for clamping said block fixedly in service position; an ink-supply drum having a driving shaft disposed in parallel relation to said first-mentioned shaft; an adjustable bearing block for said driving shaft; a bracket supporting said blocks, having a guide slct therefor; and means for adjusting said bearing blocks in said slot.

2. In a. machine as characterized, a rotary printing member comprising a rotary shaft; a thimble for said shaft; a plurality Gcpies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each. by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0.

of printing disks for mounting on said thnnble, said disks having each a plurality of printing characters projected from the 30 periphery thereof; means for alining said disks and the printing characters thereon; means for clamping said disks on said shaft; means for locking said thimble on said rotary shaft; a movable bearing block for 35 said rotary shaft; means for clamping said block fixedly in service position; an inksupply drum having a driving shaft disposed in parallel relation to said first-mentioned shaft; an adjustable bearing block 40 Witnesses VVnsLnY O. E. TUNIsoN NnLLm G. LALLY. 

